Google on Tuesday said it is now using an email authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.
If you use Yahoo Mail you should soon be seeing a significant reduction in the number of e-mail scams purporting to be from eBay and PayPal.
Google's popular free Web-based e-mail service is testing phishing protection designed to alert users to potential e-mail fraud attacks.
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It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.
The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.
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